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[John R. Sowden]

On 09/19/2013 10:08 AM, Bahn, Nathan wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 1:01 PM, John R. Sowden
> <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
>> alt f$ did not work.  I don't think it is a HD crash because the windows
>> move, accept text, mouse moves, I can open freecell (no close icons, but I
>> can click on file, then quit to exit.  I think it is window manager related.
>> I'll shut down come back up and respond.
>>
>> John
>
>
> I realize that this is possibly/probably an ignorant/stupid
> suggestion, but what the hell.  Have you tried rebooting?
per suggestion, I tried alt f4 to no avail, then I 'shut down' as I 
didn't know what was lurking in the shadows of ram, so I waited for the 
caps to discharge and did a cold start.  all is fine now.

This has happened before.  My issue now was that I had nothing of 
importance in the windows, but there could have been a complicated calc 
sheet or something else, so I am looking for a solution.  I thought that 
linux was 'immune' to these types of issues.  Hopefully there is a 
command that I can execute from the cl to 'restart' the window manager, 
which might not kill the apps that I am running. Also I feel obligated 
to 'report' the issue so if a solution appears, others might read the 
solution.  By the way, this is why I use linux in my office, since the 
mid 1990s, but not for the employees (small bus) on a network  (they are 
still using wordstar, quattro pro, foxpro with code that I write, very 
efficiently, only one at a time.